Author Bio

MH Murphy

Author MH Murphy says he is a proud Marine and Viet Nam Veteran, having served in-country, in 1965 – 66.

He has written more than twenty-five short stories about his life experiences and the people he has met along the way. Interesting stories such as My Girl (published in Rivulets 22 in 2010), Dancer, and Ghosts of Relatives Past.

He published his first book, The Ashes of War in November of 2017.

The Ashes of War

Are the millions of South Vietnamese people, whose lives were irrevocably changed by the coming and passing of a single major event in their history, the unconditional surrender of their country to its mortal enemies, North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong, on April 30, 1975.

The Communists, once in control, completely ignored the articles of the nineteen seventy-three Paris Peace Accords, which ensured democratic freedoms, freedom from reprisal, and the right to self-determination for the people of South Viet Nam. Then the victors set about punishing the vanquished.

Voices From Ukraine

Stories of the plight of the Ukrainian people living in the Russian held regions of Ukraine, the Crimean Peninsula and the Separatist republics, the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. They, until now, have had no voice.

This chronicle of events begins in 2014 with the Euromaidan protests in Kiev, and the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych followed closely by the takeover of the Crimean Peninsula by armed Russian soldiers wearing masks and unmarked uniforms and, with that, the term ``Little Green Men,`` was coined.

Voices of War Ukraine

At eleven-thirty am, on March 14, 2022, according to the Russian news agency TASS, “Ukrainian forces launched a Soviet-era Tochka-U missile with a cluster warhead into the city center of Donetsk,” a city of a million and a half people. The missile instantly shredded the lives of twenty-three civilians, including children, and injured as many or more who may not survive.

Usually, the Ukrainians say, “the Russians did it,” as in the Kramatorsk Train Station incident, but this time, Kyiv was silent. It would be ludicrous to try and get the world to believe that the Russians would drop that “killing missile” on their people in Donetsk. Two days later, according to TASS, President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Lieutenant General Alexander Pavlyuk, Kyiv’s military operation commander in Donbass. Pavlyuk was apparently chosen to fall on his sword over the decision to launch the Tochka-U missile into downtown Donetsk filled with civilians. Kyiv did not deny that they did it; they just claimed the launch was executed “without authorization.”

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